Showing posts with label Jacques de Vaucanson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jacques de Vaucanson. Show all posts

Monday, August 31, 2020

The Duck (1739)




I came across the name Jacques de Vaucanson in Hal Foster's What Comes After Farce (2020), his chapter on the novelist William Gaddis ("Player Piano"). Honestly, I had no idea.